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The British Academy, on behalf of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, invites applications for its postdoctoral fellowships for overseas researchers. These enable early-career researchers to conduct cooperative research in Japan with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the guidance of a Japanese host. Research is supported in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, and be within six years of the award of their doctorate degree when the fellowship takes effect. All applicants must in advance have arranged a research plan with a Japanese host researcher, employed at a Japanese university or research institution.

Fellowships are tenable from one to two years and provide a round-trip air ticket, a monthly maintenance stipend worth JPY 362,000, a settling-in allowance of JPY 200,000 and a research grant.

EOI

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, under its projects peer review panel, invites statements of interest for funding for large projects. This supports projects that have a significant scientific priority in particle physics, nuclear physics, astronomy or particle astrophysics. The activities of projects may include participation in new experiments or missions, and development of new instruments or upgrades to existing detectors.

Applicants must be employed as academic members of staff, lecturers or equivalent, or hold a fellowship. In exceptional cases, senior post-doctoral research assistants of sufficient experience and qualification may also be eligible. They must be either resident in the UK or employed by an overseas research organisation approved by the STFC as eligible to apply. If the applicant is not employed by the organisation submitting the proposal, they must have have written arrangement from the organisation confirming that they may carry out research there. Post-doctoral research assistants located at the same organisation as the PI, may be identified as co-applicants, and must be working on the grant for at least 50 per cent of their contracted hours.

The call for the 91¸£Àû GCRF Catalyst Fund and the 91¸£Àû GCRF Accelerator Fund is now OPEN.

GCRF Catalyst Fund - Early career researchers; £20k max

GCRF Accelerator Fund - Established Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) partnerships; £50k max

Deadline for applications: 5pm, Monday 19 November, 2018.

Overview

A Global Challenges Research Fund is now available to support research that is of direct and primary benefit to developing countries.

The internal GCRF funding is available to support both early stage and established ODA research partnerships.

• The 91¸£Àû GCRF Catalyst Fund provides grants of up to £20,000 to form partnerships and develop innovative new projects with countries or territories on the DAC list of
• The 91¸£Àû GCRF Accelerator Fund provides grants of up to £50,000 to develop established projects and partnerships into new countries and/or to seed future GCRF applications.

Eligibility criteria

• Applications from Early Career Researchers are particularly welcomed to the Catalyst Fund
• Applications to the Accelerator Fund are limited to University researchers who can demonstrate existing high quality GCRF-complaint research activities in ODA countries.

For both funds

• Projects must include partner(s) from countries or territories on the DAC list of
• Proposed activities must be of direct and primary benefit to the problems of developing countries
• Applicants must have a University contract that is either permanent, or a minimum of 12 months fixed term
• All expenditure must be completed on or by the end of the project date, and no later than 31 July, 2019
• All applications must receive the prior approval of the relevant HoD.

The closing date/time is 17:00 on Monday 19th November 2018.